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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
Persian Fountains.

In dry country like Persia, where
not drop of rain is seen for seven
months in the year, the ornamental res
ervoirs and their conduits are very much
appreciated. Given running water, and
your Persian, as a rule, sits down to adj
mire it and to smoke the pipe of con-
temptation by the side of the murmuring
streamlet Even the Persian pipe itself,
the ka!iln of hubble bubble, is doubly
grateful to the eastern mind by reason
of the bu5bling of the water contained
in it.
But in the numerous gardens of the
villages and provincial towns--and be it
remembered that in Persia gardens are
open to everybody-the Persian delight
in the running brook is seen at its
height. Little streamlets, brooks, and
runnels are constantly bubblirg in every
direction. They are even made to dis,
appear underground through what is
termed shitur-gulu or camels throat,
only to reappear again three or four yards
off and this is done solely to produce a
peculiar bubbling nose which is exceed
ingly grateful to the mind of the
Oriental IN search of rest and sleep.
ny VIZ o.uS Il llIC NdllCl llIlOdI Is
usually tiny brick platform, just large
enough for carpet and pillow to be
spread. At the marg of every mill race
the villager may be seen mok;ng his
water pipe, and p!acidly gazing upon the
running waters. These men will sit there
for hours when their days work is over
it is their way Of enjoying themselves.
We must not omit to note that at times
of rejoicing-as at marriage feasts, for in
stance the Pcrsians have curious way
of decorating their tanks They will
adorn the edges of these ornamental res
crvoirs with fruits placed in rows
oranges, or perhaps quinces-the odorf
erous ounces of Ispahan. Eut, not CON
tent with this, on still day and most
summer days in Persia are still they will
decorate the very surface of the waite,
itself with an intricate pattern of rose
leaves; and if one goes to Persian din
ner party, the first OF. ,ect which catches
the eye on entering the courtyard of ones
host is the word "Bism'ila (the cour-
tcous welcome of the pious Moslem),
done in letters foot long upon the sur
face of his hauz in floating rose leaves.
The idea is Persian pretty and poetical.
st. JdmeS's Gazette.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
Hunting the Bounding Jack Rabbit.

Concerning the jack rabbit there seems
to be prevailing misconception, says
Pasadena (Cal. letter to the Rochester
On. " Herald. Among unlettered
races few have been more shamefully
misrepresented. He is not the indis-
Greet, silly fellow supposed, and the
sportsman who pursueS him on regu-
lation principles soon finds it out. Give
him respectable showing and he soon
convinces you that he is anything but
non comps meatit. An animal that will
run, dodge, walk on tiptoes, crawl on
his belly, skulk, hide, hobble as if
wounded, and then, at a seconds notice,
shoot like pencil of light across sward
and fallow, is no freshman at the bust
ness. The most improved method of
taking this game seems to be, as in hunt
ing the quail, ION the fly" with shot
gun. The moment they appear, even if
at considerable distance, is the appointed
time. Once under Roadway they are
lost, and that without remedy Shoot
ing from the carriage is contrary to all
ideas of decorum; for, becoming
accustomed to the sight of moving
vehicles, they continue to crop the cab.
bagc leaf, gnaw the sap,ing or stare with
indifference, and thus become an easy
prey. The devout sportsman disdains to
take any mean advantage of the I'M
suspecting rodent, and no more thinks of
firing upon him on such occasions than
he would think of dunning friend at
an e'cning party or firing upon flag of
truce. Honor bright! in all things as
well in killing jacks as in trading
mules. But by far the most exciting as
we'll as exhilarating mode of pursuit is
that with horse and greyhound Mounted
on a fast-fying steed and attended by
one or more of these light-legged
coursers, the pursuer has about an lual
chance with the pursued.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
How He Knew Her.
We are unable to give any satisfactory

We are unable to give any satisfactory
sources for the following story, but it is
100 good to be ignored for that reason.
Madame de Montgolfer, who died in
Harls, IN the last part of the reign of
hlng Louis Philippe, passed her one
cumberland eleventh year. 1t was her
habit to take a walk alone every morn
ing IN the garden of the Luxembourg.
One morning, while sitting on bench
there, she became conscious of pecu-
lar sensation in her head, and loss of
Ideas. She rose to go home, but found
that she had forgotten, not only where
she lived, but her name rs well.
She called to gentleman who was
passing, "Will you please conduct me
home, sir?''
The gentleman offered his arm.
Where do you live, madame?" he
asked.
81 cannot remember the street nor
the NUMBER" said she; ''and what is
worse, [ cannot remember what my
name is. But perhaps you may under
stand better why l should be in this
plight. sir, if 1 tell you that am one
hundred aud eleven years old.
Zone hundred and eleven years old y
he exclaimed "Then you must be
Madame de Montgolfer, who lives at
Number Seventeen, Rue d'Enfer."
Exactly, s:r; l am she!" the old
woman exclaimed, in delight,
She had found out who she WIS. She
was conducted to her home, and died
peacefully within two days.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
An East India Execution.

Stories of the Ameer of Afghanistan's
severity continue to circulate. Thus the
Pioneer newspaper gives an account OF
the execution of Taimur Shah, the ring.
leader of the recent Herat mutiny. Tai
muir was taken to public place, and
there, after his beard had been plucked
out, was stoned to death by the chief
officers of the army, Parwana Khan, as
Kotwal of the city, casting the first
stone. 1t is stated that Taimur, who
was man of exceptionally powerful
build, did not die at once, though stones
were piled upon him in large heap.
Two days later the sentry on duty saw
a movement among the stones, and
stopping, he heard Taimur say: ooh!
creature of God, come, kill me, that !
may be released from this torment. D.
This being reported to the Ameer, he
ordered Taimur to be killed outright.
Another version is that Taimur died be
fore the last stone was east, but that his
nephew was found alive on the second
day after the stoning.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
A MOOD.

II Is good TO strive against wini and rain
In the keen, sweet weather that autumn
brings
The wild horse shakes not the drops from his
mani,
The wild bird fl Ks not the wet from her
wings,
In gladder shio1 than toss free
The mst-dul'ed gold of my bright hairs
flag,
What time the winds on their heel wings
lag,
And all the tempest is friends with me.
None can reach me to wound or cheer;
sound OF weeping and sound of song
Neither may trouble me: can hear
But the winds loud lau n, and the sibilant.
strong,
Luiled rush of the rain through the sapless
weeds.
U rare, dear boys, We are here again!
VIII WOO We as maidens are wood of
men
with oaths forgotten and broken creedS
y shall notlack for the suns fierce shining
With the gold of my hair will make We
glad;
FOR Your blown, red forests give no repining-
Here are my lips: will We still be sada
comfort We, comfort We, days of cloud,
Days o. shadow, of wrath, of blast
who love We am come at last
Laugh to welcome me! cry aloud!
For wild am as thy winds and rains
Free to come and to go as they;
Loves moon sways not the tides of nv veins:
There is no voice that can bid me stay
Out and away on the drenchel, brown lea!
Out to the great, glad heart of the year!
Nothing to grieve for, nothing to fear;
FetterleSs, lawlesS, a maiden. free!
-Anlelie Rires, in Harper's Month";,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
AN IRISH FAMILY.
Hard to Meet a Rent Bill of Seven
teen Dollars Il Year.

A correspondent of the New Orleans
Pcdyune, writing from Ireland, says:
One of these carts coming by was in
charge of a man and woman who will
ingly stopped to talk. and as we rested
under the thorny hedge and Flo shared
her luncheon with the woman, [ asked
her all manner of questions. She was a
very good specimen of her class, the
wife OF a poor, very poor farmer. She
was barefOOted. Her gown of cheap
wooden material had evidently not been
made for her. A big, fiimsy brown
shawl covered her shoulders. Above it
rose a strong neck, shapely head COW
cred with reddish hair that had a wave
IN it, and that was loosely knotted be-
hind. Her face was freckled, sun
stained, weather-beaten, her blue eyes
smiling. Her person was clean, her
clothes poor to the last degree, her feet
looked like huge red and yellow Jumps
of leather and gristle.
They, she and her husband, lived six
miles away from Killarney They had
bit of a farm. "Four COWS keep of
land, that is, enough land to Craze year
in and year out four COWS. In this in
stance-for a cows keep varies accord
ing to the richness of the land-their
farm consisted of eighteen acres. Most
of it was rocky; there was bit of bog
from which they cut turf to sell and for
their own fire. They managed to raise
enough potatoes for their own use.
For this farm they paid to their land
lord 93 los. a year-$17. so of our money.
Besides the rent they paid all the taxes
on the land and poor rates besides.
They had ten children, most of them
large enough to work only there was no
work for them to do. They lived in a
wild country spotted with small farms
as unproductive as their OWE; there was
no town nearer than Killarney, no place
for the boys to get work. Sometimes
some of the little ones got a little
schooling. For this they paid the
teacher shilling a quarter Their food
always was only potatoes, milk and stir
about-mush made of yellow American
corn meal. Some of the children had
never tasted meat in all their lives, nor
worn a shoe. The bit of white bread
Flo gave her was the first she had tasted
in year, and she only "tasted" that,
slipping the rest of it into the bosom of
her frock to take home to the "babbies.''
The load of turf, about two barrels,
would sell in Killarney for 10 pence.
With the 10 pence they would buy meal.
The donkey that drew their little cart
was worth 81.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
Anarchist Lingg's Sweetheart.

The Chicago Herald says: Among the
visitors to the County Jail to see the
Anarchists yesterday afternoon was one
of the young ladies who is now paying
marked attention to Lingg He has two
sweethearts, the boys around the jail
saw. One is known as his best girl, and
the other his second best. 1t was the
latter who called yesterday. Both have
taken great pains to keep their names
out of the papers, and the reporters
have so far gratified their wishes, but as
the love-makipg appears to have become
serious. this state of things cannot much
longer continue. The "second best" is
q good looking brunette of about twenty,
German lass, who can speak but few
words of English. She is favorite with
the subordina es in Tailor FOLKS office,
but Deputy Pierce is the only one so
far who seems to have won her smiles.
She is the jolliest caller the Anarchists
have, and from the time she enters the
visitors cage until she departs she keeps
both Lingg and Fischer laughing heart
lily. She appears to be gaining ground
in the matter of Lingg's affection, and
bids fair to rank as chest girl" before
long. Her visits are more frequent than
those of the most favored, and Llng2
seems to enjoy them. Lingg is in many
respects good-looking young man.
He is built for an athlete, possesses
lively disposition, is trimming over with
German jokes, and enters into the most
hearty conversation with his love-mak
ing visitor. So far the two smitten
damsels have not Glanced to call at the
same moment, but as the visits of both
are becoming more frequent this crisis
must soon occur. Then, the deputies
say, there will surely be collision.
The one who is the elder and the most
favored by Lingg is modest, sedate,
well dressed, very much of a lady, and
reserved to fault. The other charm
er, his caller of yesterday, who so far
has been content to take second place,
is quite handsome, dresses plain, but
breaks down all sorts of conventional
rules by her ringing laughter and prac-
teal, off hand Jokes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
Lessons for Young Writers.

Caller lin newspaper office)-Twenty
years ago [ wrote poem.
Editor-Yes.
81 brought it to this office and you
refused to publish it.
every likely"
81 remember that mentally put you
down then as confounded idiot who
didn't know enough to ache when hurt. -
Naturally"
81 looked that poem over again the
other day, and have come to see you
about it.
"Aha."
81 have come to say that if I looked
as green twenty years ago as that poem
proves me to have been, want to thank
you because you didn't cut me up and
feed me to the COWS. Good day"
The editor drew long chalk mark I'M
der the table. 1t was the first case in
all his experience in which twenty years
had begotten sense enough to under
stand that it is sometimes necessary tc
be cruel to be kind.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
Polishing Diamonds.

One of the greatest industries of Am
sterdam is the cutting and polishing of
diamonds; and nearly all the finest dia-
!aonds in the world are brought here to
hc cut into shape. We viii make a'visit
To one of the principal diamond establish
nents, and when we get there think we
hall be surprised to find great factory,
four or five stories high, a steam engine
II the basement, and fy-wheels, and
Ieathern bands, and all sorts of whirring
machinery in the different stories. On
the very top floor the diamonds are fin
ishcd and-polishel, and here we see skill
full workmen sitting before rapidly re-
yolving disks of steel, against which the
diamonds are pressed and polished.
1t re iures great skill, time and patience
before one of these valuable gems is got
into that shape in which it will best
shine, sparkle and show its purity.
Nearly half the diamonds produced in
the word, the best Of which come from
Erazil, are sent to this factory to be cut
and polished. Here the great Koh-i-noor
was cut; and VIC are shown models of
that and Of other famous diamonds that
were cut in these rooms. s. Nicholas
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27

wants and three maids in the carriage
stopped and deprived of all her jewels
and valuables, worth 81, 800, while the
daughter was frightened into convul-
sions.
AN ingenious plan to save dying pear
tree was adopted in the garden of L.
M. Chase, of Boston. The mice had
glrdled the tree so that it seemed bound
to die. Mr.. Chase planted four small
trees around it, and close toi it, cut off
the tops, pointed the ends, and, making
1ncisions in the bark of the pear, bent
the small trees, and grated them upon
the dying trunk. They all lived, and
that tree draws its nourishment from the
small ones. This season a bushel of
handsome pears were taken from 1t.
MARTIN GAFFoRI, aged 25, has just
been sentenced to penal servitude for
life by the Corsican Assize Court. In
four years he has committed fifty high
way rObberies and several murders.
Once he lay in wait for the local magls-
trate, compelled him to sign Judgment
IN favor of Gaffori's brother in litiga-
ton pending, and then took all the
magistrates money, and scared him SO
that he did not dare make complaint to
the police until Gaffori was arrested.
One of the latest attempts to harness
the force of nature for the service of
man is the adaptation of a windmill for
the turning of dynamo, the electricity
thus obtained being stored in suitable
batteries, and afterwards used i'll lighting
no Af hn
interests. There is station of this
kind near the mouth of the Seine, and
considerable success has been obtained.
A PHILADELPHIA bridal dress is of
cream satin, the back n straight long
train, kept up by deft arrangement of
petticoats and thick ruches of silk. The
front is covered with a fine lace scarf,
the two ends parallel with the edge of
the skirt and the double portion at the
top being carried ON to the bodice, the |
whole making soft and graceful drap-
cry.
JAMES WILLIAMSON of Toronto, O.,
captured a live crow in his cornfield. |
w nile carrying it home he was attacked |
by hundreds of other crows. He first |
tried to run away; then he made Wig
orous attempt to defend himself with
club; next he sought shelter in shed,
where the besieging crows kept him
prisoner for more than an hour.
A MAN has been selling patent churns
TO the Maine farmers, taking in pay
ment notes payable on demand and
made mot transferable, and pledg-
ing himself not to demand payment
within certain long period. Then he
the not to note, and sold the
notes; and the farmers were called upon
to pay up.
FEYTH, the Bridgeport safe burglar,
saws that safes should be set on blocks,
a, ana placed IN corner in such position
that the door will shut toward the wall
This makes it necessary to move the
safe In order to get at the door with the
wedges and jimmy, and the job is diff
fcult and dangerous.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
Paid In Gold Coin.

In Dec, 1885, l. S. johnson 81 Co, q Custom
House ST., Boston, Mass, offered eight premi-
uIns payable in gold coin, which they say crea-
ted q great interest among people who kept
hens, SO much so, in fact, that they authorize
MS to say that they shall offer Nov. LIST, 1851,
another list of premiums for the bests results
from the use of Sheridan's Powder to Make
Hens Law OF course all who compete cannot
crat one of the premiums, but some Of the last
Years reports sent us show that the parties
oupbt to have been well satisfied if they had
nat received any other benefit than the in
crease of eggs they got while making the trial.
For example the first premium was twenty
five dollars taken by G. A. French, Washing
ton. y IL, who fed thirty hens the sheridan
Powder for eight weeks. The first week he got
only ten eggs; the third week the hens laid 2ol
eggs. and the eighth week aS eggs. During the
eight weeks trial he got 1888 eggs which, at the
Drice of eggs in Boston or New York markets
In mid-,yfntcr, would have yielded $3.50 or
81 IS for each hen in eight weeks time. Con-
Sidering the small expense of keeping hen no
animal on u farm will pay like that. The
fourth premium, which was ten dollars, went
TO Mrs. e. B. Carlin, Conklin Centre, n. Y,
who in the eight weeks received from forty
hens 1907 eggs The first week she only got
b eggs, but the last week "a eggs.
This clearly demonstrates that tho use OF
Sheridan's Powder to Make Hens Lay Will IN
crease the profit several hundred per cent:
johnson & Co. will send two - cent packs or
Sheridan's Powder postpaid to any ADDRESS foT
80 cents in postage stamps; or large ~ pound
can of Powder for S1.20. To each person or
dering a large can as above they VIII send free
one copy of the Farmers Poultry Guide"
(Drice, p cents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27

The photograph Of NJ. Carpenter by
which musical compositions are written
down or registered, has now been sup
plementcl by ''melotrope" from the
same inventor, which enables them to be
played automatically in any key. For
this purpose the me!ograph bands are
perforated and caused to operate the
melotropc, an ingenious instrument
which we need not fully describe, and
which is still in its experimental stage.
With the photograph and melotrope it is
now possible to register an improvisation
or piece of classic music and reproduce
it ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27

Why, Brown, how short your coat is" said
Jones one day to his friend Brown, who wittily
replied: Yes; but it will be long enough be-
fore get another" Some men spend so much
for medicines that neither heal nor help them,
that new clothes is with them like angels visits
few and far between. Internal fevers, weak
ness of the lungs, shortness of breath and lin
gering coughs soon yield to the magic influence
of that royal remedy, DR.. R.V. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27

The former proprietor of DR., Sage's Catarrh
Remedy for years made standing, public Of
fer in all American newspapers of $500 reward
for a case of catarrh that he could not cure
The present propretors have renewed this of
fer. All the druggists sell this Remedy, togeth-
er with the "Douche," and all other appliances
advised TO be used in connection with it. No
catarrh patient is longer able to say II cannot
be cured" You get $500 in case Of failure
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27

Functional arrangement of the female, sys
tenn IS quickly cured by the of DIR. r. V.
P1erce's 'Favorite Prescription" 1t removes
druggists. VA
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27

A lady was talking about going into
half mourning, and her little daughter
Listened attentively for awhile, and then
exclaimed: Mamma, are any of our re-
lations half dead?"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27

The Geneseo Normal School is an Abnormal
school this year by reason of its increased at
tendance
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27

y BALD-HEADED man is just as well
satisfied with II back seat as with front
One-at church.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27

The boy who causes one sparrow to be a
nuisance where three or four nuisanced before
is public benefactor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
A WORD OF WARNING.

There white represented to be good
Ivory !" they ARE NOT, but like all counte lack the peculiar and
able qualities of thu genuine, Ask for Ivory" Soap upon getting
Copyright by Pocter& Gamble
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27

WHAT is that scra 'ch on your arm,
Jamie p 40, hit 1t wild de cat j. was
the unooucerned reply.
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$500 Rewurd.

The barking black squirrel barkingly parked
q bark, as he barked the bark from the we'll
barked shell bark. B-b-b-bark
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27

"RoYAL GLUE" mends anything! Broken
China, Glass, Wood. Free Walls at Drugs & Gro
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
browns I,iffIe I0La

Ellis Kansas, has jeweler named Kite. 1t
would not be surprising to hear that he had
gone up any day.
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For SPFCIiL RATES for advertising In this paper
apply to the publisher Of the paper. U42
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27

1t takes clever man to conceal from
others what he doesn't know.
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Worlds DlspsuSaN Medical Association,
663 Main ST., BJF-aLO, N. ".